Instructor

Appium

10 STUDENTS ENROLLED

Introduction to Appium

Appium is an open-source tool for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS and Android platforms. Native apps are those written using the iOS or Android SDKs.Mobile web apps are web apps accessed using a mobile browser (Appium supports Safari on iOS and Chrome or the built-in ‘Browser’ app on Android). Hybrid apps have a wrapper around a “webview” — a native control that enables interaction with web content. Projects like Phonegap, make it easy to build apps using web technologies that are then bundled into a native wrapper, creating a hybrid app.

Importantly, Appium is “cross-platform”: it allows you to write tests against multiple platforms (iOS, Android), using the same API. This enables code reuse between iOS and Android testsuites.

Appium Philosophy

Appium was designed to meet mobile automation needs according to a philosophy outlined by the following four tenets:

You shouldn’t have to recompile your app or modify it in any way in order to automate it.

You shouldn’t be locked into a specific language or framework to write and run your tests.

A mobile automation framework shouldn’t reinvent the wheel when it comes to automation APIs.

A mobile automation framework should be open source, in spirit and practice as well as in name!